7:30am – 9:00am Registration and Coffee

9:00am – 9:30am Welcome, Agenda, & Overview of Trends in Libraries

9:30am – 10:15am The Social Life of Knowledge Practices: Assumptions, Plurality, and Habits
Speaker: Bijan Esfahani, Assistant Director for Research and Instruction, Gordon Library, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

This opening session will situate participants for the day’s workshop by reflecting on the question of “What do faculty want?” through a discussion of our assumptions and perspectives, the role of plurality, and how a design framework can be used to create new habits.

10:15am - 10:30am Break

10:30am – 11:45am Panel: Successful Faculty/Librarian Collaborations
Panelists:
Pamela Graham, Instruction Coordinator, Becker College
Laura Hibbler, Coordinator of Research and Instruction, College of the Holy Cross
Michael Lombardo, Assistant Professor of Theology, Anna Maria College
Anthony Penny, Reference & Instruction Librarian, Anna Maria College
Virginia Ryan, Ph.D., Visiting Instructor, Religious Studies Department and Montserrat Program, College of the Holy Cross
Daryl Statkus, Associate Professor Humanities, Becker College

Faculty and librarian collaborators from three local academic institutions will share best practices and lessons learned from their successful efforts to embed information literacy instruction into courses across disciplines.

11:45am – 12:45pm Lunch

12:45pm – 2:00pm Panel: Librarian Perspectives on Understanding Faculty Needs
Panelists:
Jennifer Adams, Research, Instruction & Outreach Librarian, College of the Holy Cross
Eleta Exline, Scholarly Communication Coordinator, The University Library, University of New Hampshire
Laura Robinson Hanlan, Research and Instruction Librarian, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Gordon Library
Tressa Santillo, Access Services Coordinator, WPI: Interlibrary Loan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Librarians from four academic institutions will share best practices or findings regarding faculty need for services and resources at their institutions. Each panelist will focus on one of the following areas: scholarly communication initiatives, research instruction, and resource sharing/interlibrary loan.

2:00pm – 2:15pm Break

2:15pm – 3:15pm Panel: WPI First Year Program Faculty Panel
Panelists:
Marja Bakermans, PhD, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Geoffrey Pfeifer, Assistant Teaching Professor, Humanities & Arts, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Derren Rosbach, Assistant Teaching Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Kris Wobbe, Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Four faculty members from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), including the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, will provide various perspectives on how librarians at WPI support the research needs of students enrolled in WPI’s first-year, group project based learning courses, the Great Problems Seminars.

3:15pm – 3:30pm Wrap up and End